I have known Barber ole Jakom since 1995; and have known his true colours since 1998.
On this revived Historia101 I penned on Facebook 7-years ago–which has remained unchallenged ever since–I rudely urinated on that myth in a public baraza.
Much of the content herein is now common knowledge, at least since June 2024 when Raiya ole Tinga went a notch higher in his career gangsterism and exposed himself to the rest of the shithole.
Van said, on 26 October 2017:
“It seems to me that some people claiming to be intellectuals have problems understanding the basics concerning politics , an analogy might help to clarify , let’s say that an important football match has to be played and one team suspects that the referee has been bribed , the last match they played the referee apparently was biased , his actions where suspicious , now they decide to give forfait … That does not make sense because now anyhow they will lose with 5-0 , it is the consequence of giving forfait , what they should have done is played and gather evidence of the referee’s bias , instead they gave forfait , why would a team do that ? They would do that because they do not have their house in order or they would do that because they know they are going to loose anyway, in short they chickened out .
Another thing the same intellectuals do not seem to grasp is that if you do exactly the same thing over and over again , the result will also be the same , Riala had 5 years to score goals in a goal without a goal keeper , he did not , he did not criticize the government on daily basis . How easy it would have been , there were so many corruption scandals , there was the doctors strike , there was and is the nurses strike , there is the sky high youth unemployment , there is so much failing , yet Raila was not interested in that , the only thing he was interested in was powerplay , and that is what he is still doing , he is not interested in Kenya , he is not interested in the common wananchi , he is only interested in himself , one has to suffer from cognitive dissonance not to see that . Raila had 5 years to organize a shadow cabinet and a shadow vote counting organization , he did not instead he is walking the thin line of creating anarchy , one can not say in the same sentence we are now a resistance movement but hey ,stay at home , this is a contradiction made on purpose ,while staying in the legal framework, he does hope for chaos, as usual not caring about the consequences for his followers .
What this country needs urgently is a young hard working opposition that does not use the tribal division card , but hammers on the wrongs in this society and comes up with the ideas on how to improve it . The King of Kisumu did not do that , he lost his relevance . Who will stand up ?”
(Contextual notes:
1. Van* is a white immigrant who resides/d in Brutish East Afrika—I on the other hand has lived and studied here all my life
2. This was 2017; zillions of litres passed under ze bridge since—3-years *before* Konokono Virus tragicomedy)
MY *UNEDITED* REPLY:
Van – Though my inner voice is shrieking in agreement with the spirit of your sentiments, most of what you have expressed is based on a wrong premise: Wrong; criticising the kenyan gvt daily or hourly or once in a decade is the same thing: your enemies (unfriendly tribes) remain the bored same and your allies are usually too engrossed in their own problems to care—until you make it your job to remind them that they not only have those unfortunate problems, but that those very problems have a source: Those People yonder.
Your analogy is even worse: Imagine that Barca was playing El Classico against its sport and political enemy, Real in the current climate; the ref is Madrid-approved and controlled…. During the first leg in Neo Camp, the ref is, unsurprisingly, biased towards its master—Barca is denied several free-kicks and a penalty — Real scores 3-1 with a disputed penalty and an off-side…..
Would you blame the Catalans for boycotting the away match on the Barnabau? Not a fitting analogy to our rotten rulers of rats cos those both fc teams are honourable—but the point is home.
That aside, you are correct that raira has no interest for the country (never had)—only his own interests (like every other polishitian, I must hasten to append).
I have always wondered (at least from 1997) why raira worshippers who are well-educated (especially non-Luo) ignore his entire history and only focus on his cleverly Mandelarized image (same thing was done to the South Afrikan by Western press)—today i got the aha-moment: There is no easy access to info.
I did some google search about some recent history that happened in my early adulthood, namely: when Orengo—today’s Baba’s lap dog —was attacked by baba’s goons in the premises of parliament in 1998 (when baba was in honeymoon with his biggest mpango wa kando of the day: The Butcher from Sacho—Toro Arap Moi.
A year earlier, Orengo had represented those same thugs in court in “democratic”-related saga (orengo was the face of opposition then country-wide — save for Luo-nyanza)…
That info is nowhere to be found. Luckily, I still retain some paper copies from ’97 to around 2004 (i sold a few thousands of them in Rîmuru 9 yrs ago — i had nothing and the landlord was giving me signs of tonguelash 😢 )
Still, Tinga is associated with a list of scandals in recent years; but maybe educated people do not follow current affairs, so lemmi list some which are a google search away:
>The great leader who will stump out corruption was exposed by wikileaks as deeply immersed in Maize scandal worth billions in 2009.
>Dominion Farms saga is still hang’ing on his shoulder.
>The Triton Oil scandal that deeply involved his son, Castro—and rumoured to have made the
old kingmaker billionaire overnight.
>The Ndûng’û Land Report listed Spectre International, odinga-owned, as amongst the heavy-weight land-grabbers in kenya in 2003. Let’s forget about that.
BAT-Mastermind scandal may not have been his making, but you do not expect squeky-clean leader in such fiascos.
As for his touted “sacrifice” for our “freedoms” and “democratic space”, someburry suck my black mandingo.
>His iron-fist rule in Nyanza is legendary — Orengo, Anyang Nyong’o, Tuju, Dalmas Otieno, Ochuodho and Donde can tell you a story: you either kiss Odingas’ backsides or you shove your development/democratic ideals up your bottom.
>Orengo was assaulted in the hallowed parliament for defying our Saint of democracy; Nyong’os many university degrees meant shit. Oh, thy Lord in Bondo.
>Nyayo was worse than Museveni and Magfuli and Lungu combined–Tinga still abandoned democratic ideals to become the secretary gen. of Kanyanga Angamiza Nyonga Ua (kanu)…. Barber worshippers would have us believe that he only joined to perform a Trojan Horse — I say: UNGUARDED NONSENSE.
Oh, and did you know why he decamped Ford-Kenya to form NDP in (’95 or ’96 hapo)? – Answer: cos delegates prefarred Wamalwa (Gijana) over him.
He tried a party coup and failed—hence the exit— dressed with sweet propaganda that the impressionable masses swallowed like Cofta.
There, i said it in black and white — mwenye kuumwa ameze wembe.
In conclusion, I am not (no longer) an anti-theist—but if you need to win new converts in your religion of living gods—be careful with those who have more facts about your deities than you do.
Sincerely, Jehovah
An introverted ol’ fart born in the twilight zones of Brutish East Afrika—where colonial ghosts still whisper and social constructs crumble at the edges. A contrarian’s contrarian: too restless for orthodoxy, too curious for comfort.My credentials? A PhD in blasphemy , a masters in marginal thinking.
I am the offspring of contested territories, a human palimpsest where history’s rough drafts collide. Neither fully indigenous nor entirely colonized—a liminal being who speaks in the languages of resistance and nuance–ze middle-finger icing ze cake where necessary.
A peasant who researches, a researcher who tills: my hands know both soil and scholarship.
My liberalism? Lowercase and lawless